Cardiff Metropolitan University is at the forefront of political correctness sensitivity. The University Bans Lecturers from Using any Sexist or Insensitive Words. The list of banned words is wider than you might think. Here are some examples: mankind, homosexual, housewife, manmade, and sportsmanship.
And please, try to avoid words like “mother” and “father” unless you can say “mother and father” together. Yes, the article states that.
Gee, is there an order for this? Yes, there is. It better be random. Always saying mother first could get you in trouble. The article did not say but the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” clearly has to go.
According to the guide, Mrs. and Miss are considered offensive. Clearly, it’s best to avoid gender-identifying terms altogether.
What happens When these culturally-trained “snowflakes” hit the real world outside of their safe-space university?
Hmm. Am I allowed to use the word “snowflake” like that? Apologies offered for my unsportspersonslike conduct.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
That would so make me want to use every single one of those words as often as possible and take pleasure in them.
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Spot on! I would do precisely the same.
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Me too, I will do anything to get laid.
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Double plus good brothers and sisters!
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Great, another university where businesses don’t have to bother interviewing….
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Who would in the right mind want to hire anyone so insecure and “delicate”. HR would go nuts. But then again, they probably aren’t all that interested in a job.
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Perfect training for future community organizers.
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Don’t worry, government will take up the slack.
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But Starbucks need people, too. They will a great competition to refugees and robots while fighting to raise the minimum wage from their parent’s basement.
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Dang! If I follow this, I can’t even tell my wife she does a workwomanly job of cooking!
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if housewife is consumer then husband is producer? LOL
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I think I detect a definitely sexist connotation there! You bad!
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Afraid not because it contains the word MAN
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I must inform you, Sir, that the word “wife” is now considered sexist and patriarchal, and is exclusionary and abusive to LGBTQ persons since your use of “wife” seems to imply a person of gender opposite to yours; and the word “workwomanly” is sexist when coupled with the word “cooking”.
YOU BEAST!!!!!!!! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME………………..
Be careful what you say – the Tongue Trooper Gestapo are watching and listening.
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How dare you use the word SIR!
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So…IF their graduate DOES get a job…ANY job….and some racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobe, 2nd Amend Gun Nut, or Right to Life person says an unkind word….is this new-guy-on-the-job-only-four-days gonna run to management and demand that other person get reprimanded, just like their ‘teachers’ told them to…….
…gonna. be a VERY short career…..
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The word “job” is banned, it rimes with one well-known word associated with fe-males, or is it she-genderians?
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I guess the lecturers need to get with the program and man up!
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Guess they wouldn’t like the way I talk. I’m a “Deplorable Educated Redneck Hillbilly from West Virginia.”
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are women still allowed to use the term “man up”?
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I understand the sentiment but the blame on universities is misplaced: in this they are fully in sync with their customer base. As a recent article by Michael Totten (Children of the Revolution in City Journal) reminds us, millenials are an extremely authoritarian and antidemocratic cohort by attitude and temperament. Only 30 percent think that it’s “essential” to live in a country with a democratic system of government, and a terrifying 24 percent actually think that a democratic system of government is a bad thing. Only 32 percent think that it’s “absolutely essential” that “civil rights protect people’s liberty.” According to a Pew Research Center report, 40 percent want the government to ban “offensive” speech.
So, Mish, the answer to your question? Once in the real world they will impose their values. Brace yourself.
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Democratic government IS a bad thing. Just like all other forms.
The US has one and it is number one in killing and destroying.
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I’ve thought for a long time that ‘real’ criminals should be permanently excluded from civilized society. Recently I’ve added liberals to that.
They have too many of a criminal’s bad traits.
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Progressive liberalism is a mental disorder.
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‘Progressive liberalism’ is an oxymoron.
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Then don’t tell Bernie; he’s confused enough already.
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Can’t help but wonder if these examples of totally irrational, extreme sensitivity presage an all-consuming global war.
Depopulation may be at hand.
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suicide by indoctrination, Drug legalization to ease our way out……pass it over to me….
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You are maybe on to something there Tim, this sort of legislation is very cult like.
Add to that that the word ‘man’ is neutral, it means eq. person, the seperate word denoting a male was dropped but the word denoting female was added to man, to become woman. Hence males became just ‘persons’ but females are ‘ she-persons’, which I have to assume is a privilege to women , and still some complain.
Either way that is all besides the point, gender surpression is the theme as it is clear gender equality is really not a feasible path, in fact is misguided and detrimental to all, if attempted to be applied beyond the most basic of moral.
So why gender surpression?
I can only think that somehow someone empowers themselves from the reduction of existing social and family roles to being something better avoided, leaving a model that is weak and suceptible to the authority that protects it, and more hostile to or detached from traditional frameworks.
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Spot on Crys!!! They do not want masculine men anymore. This continue to assist the femi-nazis to not only hate, but help their agenda of castrating men. Our media does this daily men are portrayed is dumb ignorant savages, irresponsible children, and not doing their part to see the true way of thinking that women are equal to men.
Women forget biological facts that they will never be men so they want men to be more like women. What bothers me the most is these women want to create a world where men no longer matter. Men need to wake up and stop trying to conform the femi-nazis vision of us. Women will never be stronger then men period biologically it is impossible. Sure there are some women that can work alongside men in tough jobs buy most cannot handle it. People only need to study biology to see the differences.
Truth be told I cannot wait to see our military in an engagement where women are capture and treated to rape and murder and things will change in the military. All of these experiments we tried covertly in the 1980’s and it did not work then and will not work now physically women cannot handle the requirements of carrying 100lbs of gear. Women have less sweat glands and they do not have the upper body strength to handle the rigors of combat. No matter how the media and government plays it.
Notice how men are required to sign up for the draft still while women do not. I could go on and on but why men these days prefer to play pokemon and worry about their next phone for selfies.
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The way I understand it is that what is being created is an elite medium. That is to say three quarters of the higher stratum of society will have been exposed, if not indoctrinated, to this way of thinking during formative years. They will be the judges, the journalists, the management… basically a main part of the seat of power, disconnected if not disdaining towards common society, following an ideal and with immense power at their fingertips. They do not have to fight, it only takes a hard judgement, some bureaucratic attention, open condemnation from authority of certain styles etc., and the individual finds their life, work, and social structure that supports them, condemned ( as in ruined). I have witnessed this in action first hand and it is terrible, the individuals have no opportunity or power to defend themselves, as to do so becomes an immense waste of time and energy even if successful.
And yes, there is some very high level thread of organisation to this, and no, I don’t know who or what is at the top of it – quite possibly it is side managed in preparation for the creation of an eventual open leadership. We think of individuals competing to reach the top, but complete idealists are content to work for decades to prepare a lead position for someone who they don’t know or has not been chosen yet to represent them.
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The true agenda is depopulation. Initially through abortions, then fluoride, mandatory vaccines and flu shots, chemtrails, GMOs, etc. We are being inundated with neurotoxins. Brain damaged people generally do not reproduce. Overall, cultural marxism has destroyed traditional family values and morals and succeeded in pussyfying the male species. The next phase, I expect will include penile and vagina monitors so as to tax you by the stroke.
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Snowflakes as cannon fodder? Nah.
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Whew.. glad to see the word cunt is not on the list.
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That would be because they’re a bunch of wankers.
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What confounds me, is that we grew up when we could say anything or call anyone anything, but it was a challenge to even get your hands on a Playboy. Now every 5-year-old has seen a woman blowing a donkey, so you would think they would be so desensitized, and yet they crumble at words like “waitress.”
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Same goes with violence, politically incorrect cowboys and indians is replaced with virtual reality and tv saturation.
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What about names such as Dick, or Virginia? Shouldn’t boys be allowed to be named after pleasant months such as March, April, May, and June?
It’s hard to know whether this resembles magic (changing the world with words) or fascism (forcing other people to your cause).
What people are not yet considering is that the limits to this kind of fetishism are endless, once you get started seriously. Colors, smells, sounds, there just isn’t a whole lot that cannot serve for more of this neurotic compulsion.
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Not a very clearly written article but it goes along the lines you mention
http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/03/the-experience-of-a-lifetime/
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UK university graduates increased from 22,000 to over 350,000 between 1960 and 2010. Being that general educational standards probably actually fell during this period I would argue that, in order for these new universities to stay economically viable, increasingly ridiculous degree courses such as golf course management, gender studies etc and increasingly bizarre in-house activities such as racial sensitivity training etc were going to become more important in lieu of actual serious studies. I foresee a time when some universities will be employing more trainers, counsellors, pseudo-psychologists and assorted ‘specialists’ than actual lecturers.
UK is no longer anywhere near the top ranking countries using World Intellectual Property indicators. Something that in 1960 would have been considered inconceivable. And yet, according to the figures above, we are producing more ‘educated’ people than ever!
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Oh, btw, I vehemently demand a safe space on this forum since the webmaster here has decided to dignify all my posts with a swastika icon.
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Is that a microagression by today’s standard?
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Our modern notion of education is simply equivalent to providing people with tools. If they have no idea what to do with them, have no skills relevant to them, they are a lead weight around their necks. Knowledge is all fine and good, but true education is to educate people how to think, to reason, to actually put their minds to work, rather than simply spewing repeatedly what has been planted in their heads. The difference between a memory chip and a processor.
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This all seems extremely silly, but I can at least understand the logic of some of these switches. But…mother and father, really?
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Given the University’s Welsh location one is surprised that Sheep-shagger didn’t make the verboten list.
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Take every person advocating this lunacy to live in Saudi Arabia for two years, bring them back and see if they are still the same PC person.
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This is non-news and many in higher institutions of education would agree a silly action to take. Top universities have better things to worry about. The UK has significant science and STEM research coming out of it. It’s also ranked as one of the top countries for innovation (http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2016/article_0008.html)
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Wholly cow! No more Batman.
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Would enjoy ambling around that campus wearing my coat with a “Liberty or Death…Don’t tread on me” patch, as well as a “Come and Take it” and Confederate Flag patch.
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Academics take all this very seriously but comedians are delighted, comediennes not so much :-).
Me , I am only a hu-man that cannot bear children, so unfortunately less than half a wo-man and some ‘persons’ make sure that I know it.
Perhaps I am gender neutral? It gets confusing.
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“What happens When these culturally-trained “snowflakes” hit the real world outside of their safe-space university?”
They destroy it!
What part of the plan to collapse western civilization onto our heads don’t you get?
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Yeah, just look at the guy Phil commenting below, having a conversation with himself and getting all worked up over it, given half a chance he’ll interrupt here. Poor sod, but it just goes to show.
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This country needs a lot more housewife. Social engineers have been working to destroy that particular occupation for decades.
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You go, Mish! Next we want you to make it OK to call African Americans “Negros” again too. It should be safe in America for pudgy, autism-spectrum guys to call black people “Negros.” That’s freedom, right?
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Oh, did I mention well-off white guys, along with pudgy autism spectrum? You should definitely be able to use whatever kind of old fashioned language you want, including Negro, Sodomite, whatever. Good on you, tough guy.
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Phil, bend over and take it like a ….what?
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If you speak Spanish or Portuguese, they are negroes. Personally, I call them black because I travel a lot and have no idea what to call black people if I am in a foreign country and therefore African – American clearly is not appropriate. But most are brown anyway which adds to the confusion unless you go to places like Italy and see the North Africans that are so black they are almost purple and you understand why the Italians came up with the derogatory ‘eggplant’. Then there is Brazil where the head singer of the most famous samba school legally changed his name to the direct translation of “big nigger”.
The World just gets more confusing every day.
And sodomite, which I never heard anyone ever call a gay person (there are so much funnier and better slurs) is now inappropriate? Seems technically correct unless the word sodomy is no longer allowed either.
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Of course, if you are Portuguese and wanted to be politically sensitive, you would cal them ‘escuroinhos’, which means dark people, which I doubt would go over well calling a black person “darkie.” Christ, ya need an app just to keep up with this shit.
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Jesse Jackass originated the ‘African-American’ abomination. Now damned near every American is hyphenated. I’ve even heard some nutcase commentators refer to ‘Muslim- Americans,’ which at least as bad as hyphenated (and phony) nationalities like African. What am I, an ‘Anglican-American’??
What a crock of crap. We’re all in this thing together and, as far as I’m concerned, Americans of whatever race and/or religion are Americans. Period. Using ‘hyphenated Americans’ benefits only politicians and other hucksters who profit–both professionally and financially–from dividing us. “We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately,” as Ben Franklin said just before he signed our Declaration of Independence nearly 241 years ago.
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Mish…read a recent article that publishing houses are now hiring PC editors for “proper gender and terminology usages” to be used in ALL publications…The daughter of our friends recently failed a term paper at a Christian college for improper use of gender terminology…Our daughter is one year from the university brainwash war..she is however the offspring of a Marine and has been in training to handle this battle for 17 years…keep up the great wok…John
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“she is however the offspring of a Marine”
Does that mean that “Marines” are allowed to go around and insult everybody, and be admired for it? I was always taught that a Marine is a Gentleman first.
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AH…..? But can they Text the Words…? lololol
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The more yapping I hear from these blowhards is indicative of close to the end we are. All this energy directed towards nonsense won’t feed anybody, and won’t provide prosperous employment. When the parents can’t afford to house and feed the snowflakes, the whole PC thing will die because people will be scrambling to afford their smartphones.
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“All this energy directed towards nonsense won’t feed anybody, and won’t provide prosperous employment”
If you are talking about this INSANE “War on the American People” — oops! I meant the “War on”, ahem, “Drugs” or that ridiculous “Culture War” (another “war” on the American People), then, yes, I agree. The LUST exhibited by the bible-thumpers and that disgusting DEA in persecuting people that they simply don’t like is RIDICULOUS to say the least, and EVIL.
You should worry a lot more about the evil coming from the “right” than any silly programs coming from the PC crowd. The so-called “States Rights”, ah, you should excuse the expression, um, “conservatives”, are a greater danger to American civil liberties than the “left” could ever be.
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I’d like to suggest some more banned words (with alternatives in parenthesis): Pussy (Don’t grab), Boob (Don’t touch).
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This will seem like a joke to many of you dear readers, but really, it is true:
A group of Asian-American young men have a dance band and they decided they better get trademark protection on the band name. They applied for the registration, and were turned down, because the government said they have to block trademarks that may be disparaging, or cause contempt or disrepute. The band and their lawyer have appealed to several courts, and “Lee v. Tam” is going to be decided by the Supremes, who heard the case in January. BTW, the name of the band is “The Slants”.
For more details see Reason Magazine 4/2017 issue.
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How do I ask for a manicure from today on ?
Though I think it is really dangerous to force people not to use some words (it is a witch hunt), it is common sense to respect anyone by using adapted terms. Education leads to this faculty if it is with freedom of thought..
It makes me think of some socialist politicians in France who officially wanted the removal of the word ‘race’ in first article of French constitution…
I firmly believe average IQ is dwindling year after year in general population.
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Manicure, just like chairman, has nothing to do with gender but with the Latin (Roman) language and refers to the hand. The stupid university cunts (is that term PC?) who want to ban the word chairman are so poorly educated that they don’t know that chairman means the hand on the chair and that the plural of chairman is chairmans not chairmen (otherwise the plural of hand would be hend not hands).Shall they also ban the words manual or manufacture?
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Hey, I am French and we all know that.
It was written with the intent that yourself made explicit to non-educated people indeed. Thanks for the effort 😉
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The irony is that this is a Welsh University – trying
to modify our English language.
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Allow me to internationalize:
Belgium & France: “Collaborator”” (WWII): 99%
Germany: “Nazi” (99% of management at Daimler Benz, Krupp & most other big companies plus many peasants & blue collar workers)
la Suisse & everywhere else: Manufacturing armaments & shipping gold for the Nazis during the week while praying for the Allies on the weekend although I have never heard any single epithet except the international description “bourgeois hypocrite” which runs like water off a duck’s back for practitioners who usually take it as a status symbol while thinking nothing of lying, a simple modus vivendi one accepts if one wants to join the army of economists at the IMF, the Fed, the BLS, the military & the rest of the bureaucracies, governmental & corporate.
Looking forward to the university’s neuterization of:
Suffragette
Women’s Libber
&
Male Chauvinist Pig
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As Nils Lofgren said, “sticks and stones,will break my bones
but your words they break my heart.”
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American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray and a Middlebury College professor were both assaulted by left-wing demonstrators Thursday night following a disrupted talk by the conservative researcher at the Vermont-based school.
Murray was being escorted off university grounds by Middlebury professor Allison Stanger when the pair were greeted by an angry mob of around 30 demonstrators — some of whom were masked, the Vermont newsweekly Seven Days reported.
Stanger suffered neck injuries during the mob’s assault after she had her hair pulled while trying to get Murray in his car. She’s now having to wearing a neck brace after the assault.
Murray’s vehicle was attacked once he got inside of it, with protesters jumping up on the car and banging on its windows. The mob managed to place a cement-based stop sign in front of the car in an attempt to block it from moving, according to Seven Days.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/03/leftist-students-physically-assault-conservative-scholar-professor-over-speech/#ixzz4aM8ikX36
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Oh really? I never heard about it. Where did you get that from? Fox News?
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Can I say, “the person with a penis” or “person with a vagina”, because that seems like a logical progression of this dogmatic nonsense.
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Vaginal American is the proper term – please see https://www.tysknews.com/LiteStuff/pc_primer__pc_lexicon.htm – many other terms listed.
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I can’t believe their synonym for housewife is consumer! My mother was a housewife in the 1970s and made just about everything by hand to avoid being a consumer. She would be seriously offended by this. But who cares about her values? She was just a housewife. This makes me so mad.
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I suspect this article is some sort of hoax. Even progressives can’t be that stupid, and still have enough gray matter to figure out how to coordinate the muscle contractions required for inhaling air.
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You haven’t met enough progressives, Stuki. . . .
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I’m so “Progressive” that I’m a Socialist, and if you start disrespecting me by calling me names, I will proceed to put my foot up your…well, you know.
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“Hey hey! No no! Cardiff grads have got to go!
Unless my business was in the snowflake manufacturing sector, I would NEVER hire these grads. Any self respecting student and faculty should either fight this abomination, or leave. Otherwise, you are only good for social unrest going forward.
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Man oh man. When will Cardiff ban people named Manfred from attending their university?
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How about “Manfred Mann”, the 1960s band who performed “The Mighty Quinn”?
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Let’s go one further here. Not only do they prohibit certain traditional English words but they force you to use new ones to describe yourself. This forces the brainwashed user to think differently, unless you think only in pictures.
For example:
The word “gay” means lively, happy and energetic.
The homosexuals and their toadies in the media now have given it a different meaning. We are supposed to use that word to describe them because that’s the word they want to be called and therefore we must use it. This gives approbation to homosexuality and to homosexuals.
Also, non-homosexuals are supposed to use another English word out of context to describe ourselves: “straight”. So we have to call them what they want to be called and we have to call ourselves what they want to call us?
Notice the order, it’s always “gay and straight” One has precedence over another.
If society must use the word that a group demands it be called, then non-homosexuals should just be called “Normal”. That’s the word I demand society use to describe me and I think most males would want to and demand to be called.
“Homosexual” is a perfectly acceptable term and is descriptive and neutral. Hate laden words like “queer”, “degenerate”, etc are harmful. Homosexual is neutral and therefore seems perfectly acceptable.
How about “partner”. A that word strips meaning and richness from the English language. It now encompasses everything from a bus station restroom hookup for one day to a man and woman that have been married for fifty years. The word strips the significance and meaning from both circumstances and equalizes them.
That one word now signifies the following:
Husband and wife, fiancee, betrothed, lover, girlfriend, boyfriend, lesbian girlfriend, homosexual boyfriend and let’s not forget business partner.
Don’t let them control your language that you speak with and use to think and write.
The more they condemn a word, the more opportunities you should seek to use it.
Always be erudite and a gentleman 🙂
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Yes, but being “erudite and a gentleman” would also mean to not disrespect others even if you don’t agree with them. However, you do seem to be hostile toward Gay folks. You don’t want them to have “approbation”. Frankly, I don’t know what that word means, so I can only assume that it means “normalcy” or “acceptance”, and that seems to bother you.
A lot of so-called “conservatives” refuse to accept the acceptance of those people, and then try to “hide” behind their (phony) religion, to justify their prejudices. Check this out…not everybody is a so-called Christian, so they may want to accept Gay people. If so-called “conservatives” despise them so much, then they should keep it to themselves. Once these bible-bangers try to de-legitimize people whose lifestyle they don’t like, then that leads to a lot of unnecessary conflicts.
That’s why those words are discouraged. If you wanna be a “Gentleman”, then BE ONE!!! Gentlemen don’t go around insulting people.
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The examples of so-called “Political Correctness” that you listed were ridiculous and extreme. Nobody is getting in trouble for saying, “sportsmanlike”, or “mankind” or “ladylike” (alright, I made that last one up). It may be true that negative words pertaining to ethnicity, or sexual preference would be discouraged, and for good reason. Nobody likes being called a racial name, it’s disrespectful. Doesn’t disrespect just add to the tensions in a school or workplace? Frankly, I do not talk politics in the Workplace, period. Once you open your mouth in a political or social way, then the people around you, who you work with you, will start to have pre-conceived ideas about you, and that cannot be good.
I wouldn’t insult a co-worker for no reason, would you?
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What exactly do you achieve by replacing MANkind with huMANity?
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This is not funny. This is seriously wrong. It is exactly like that that Nazism and Bolchevism and other heinous ideologies operated.
We can see where it comes from: the same usual Soros financed, globalist, islamists, far leftist and fake feminists sick ideologies.
The Cardiff Metropolitan University must be MANNED by a bunch of pathetic left fascists cocksuckers, shameful homosexuals and sexually frustrated retarded hippies furies or on the payroll of criminals like Soros. saudi barbaria or qatar goatfuckers.
I hope this was not too politically correct mister big brother.
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Reblogged this on sentinelblog.
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The only way to graduate this liberal arts college is to master censorship. OOPS I used the word “master”.
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